UK museums offering free access to over 3 million archived records

The widely scattered digital records of archives held by museums across the UK are to be unified into a single online platform that will also be open to the public for free.
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Announced yesterday evening, the Museum Data Service (MDS) aims to create a single, easy-to-search website that will be open to all accredited and museum-like venues and provide nationwide insight into their archives and collections.
The MDS is online now and has launched with 3.1 million records